The Sciences Are Of A Sociable Disposition,

And, Lastly, To Vindicate These Rights, When Actually Violated And Attacked, The Subjects Of England Are Entitled, In The First Place, To The Regular Administration And Free Course Of Justice In The Courts Of Law; Next To The Right Of Petitioning The King And Parliament For Redress Of Grievances; And, Lastly, To The Right Of Having And Using Arms For Self Preservation And Defense.

And These Great Natural Rights May Be Reduced To Three Principal Or Primary Articles: The Right Of Personal Security; The Right Of Personal Liberty; And The Right Of Private Property; Because As There Is No Other Known Method Of Compulsion, Or Of Abridging Man's Natural Free Will, But By An Infringement Or Diminution Of One Or Other Of These Important Rights, The Preservation Of These, Inviolate, May Justly Be Said To Include The Preservation Of Our Civil Immunities In Their Largest And Most Extensive Sense.

The Law Rarely Hesitates In Declaring Its Own Meaning; But The Judges Are Frequently Puzzled To Find Out The Meaning Of Others.

Law, In Its Most General And Comprehensive Sense, Signifies A Rule Of Action; And Is Applied Indiscriminately To All Kinds Of Action, Whether Animate, Or Inanimate, Rational Or Irrational. Thus We Say, The Laws Of Motion, Of Gravitation, Of Optics, Or Mechanics, As Well As The Laws Of Nature And Of Nations. And It Is That Rule Of Action, Which Is Prescribed By Some Superior, And Which The Inferior Is Bound To Obey.

By Marriage The Husband And Wife Are One Person In Law, That Is, The Very Being Or Legal Existence Of The Woman Is Suspended During Marriage.